Writing in treehugger.com, Lloyd Alter says modular housing is now 11 percent of the Canadian housing market, three times what it was when he was selling homes in Wingham, Ontario for Royal Homes’ Pieter Venema, who built the Kohn Shnier designed Muskoka cottage for two families. Noting factory-built homes are …
Following a story we first posted Oct. 21, 2013 regarding the proposed redevelopment of Vineland Vista Mobile Home Park in St. Helena, California owned by Vintner Hall Wines, the Napa Valley Planning Commission has delayed approval of the modification because the old ordinance does not allow for multifamily modular housing. …
Researchers at the University of Southern California have developed a large 3D printer that will build a two-story modular home in 24 hours. The fabrication technology, called Contour Crafting, was developed by Behrokh Khoshnevis, according to worldpropertychannel.com. A printer fitted with fast-drying concrete replaces laborers to create a home based …
Two Story Modular Home Built on Site in 48 Hours. You Think? Read More
Inmate overcrowding is a major issue in the race for sheriff in Stockton, California, pitting incumbent Sheriff Steve Moore against Sgt. Pat Withrow. While a state panel approved $33.3 million for a new, higher-security facility to replace the Honor Farm, Withrow wants to add modular jail units on an “as …
Taking over a one-time manufactured housing plant in Johnstown, Colorado, PTI Group has converted the 113,000 square-foot facility to constructing modular workforce housing for the oil, gas and mining industries in Canada. Based in Alberta, Canada, PTI scouted 78 cities before choosing the Denver area because of the availability of …
Former Manufactured Housing Plant Bustling with Modular Workforce Units Read More
As follow-up to a story MHProNews last posted May 22, 2013, the Clayton-Bradley Academy, which opened on the grounds of Clayton Homes in July, has announced plans to add four classrooms to the school which currently serves 78 tuition students. Dr. Don Bruce, chairman of the nonprofit organization Innovative Education …
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Black Diamond Structures of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, which rents and sells remote workforce housing and modular workspace solution, has announced it will pay a dividend of $0.075 per share for January, 2014. The company’s board of directors reports the dividend will be paid on February 18, 2014 to shareholders of …
Modular Accommodations Supplier Declares Monthly Dividend Read More
The Billings County Fryburg School in western North Dakota was sold for almost $500,000 to Louisiana-based Energy Resource Group for a man camp for the Bakken oil field workers, but the company never followed through. The bismarcktribune.com reports an Alabama-based company, Bakken Suites of Fryburg, has more recently filed a …
Champion Homes will close its Carolina Building Solution plant in Salisbury, North Carolina in March, and consolidate it with its facility in Lillington, NC 80 miles to the east. Some of the 93 employees may relocate to Lillington depending upon how many are needed, but Salisbury Plant Manager Jeff Mooring …
Livingston Manor at the southern edge of the Catskill Mountains in New York has won a $1.8 million grant to replace an affordable housing project with 27 two-bedroom and 33 three-bedroom modular townhomes, according to recordonline.com. Utilizing federal and state low-income housing tax credits, funding for the 60 unit Hemlock …
An 80,000 lb. concrete monolith portion of a home developed by Jacksonville, Florida-based Montenero U. S. has been installed in Moore, Oklahoma, the site of a devastating tornado May 20, 2013. Comprising almost a third of the 1,885 square-foot house’s structural support, newsok.com informs MHProNews.com the shell will provide an …
Alberta, Canada’s New Home Buyer Protection Act will offer more consumer protection when the mandatory warranty protection takes effect Feb. 1, 2014. The Canadian Home Builders’ Association-Alberta initially offered coverage on new homes beginning in 1974, and the new act ensures all builders meet the same standards. Modular and manufactured …
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John Kozal, an engineer with Universal Forest Products, Inc. (UFPI) since 1994, has been mentoring high school students doing home design and construction since 2009, first at Union High in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and now at Central High. Seven students in particular received his undivided attention, according to schoolnewsnetwork.org, and …
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Following up on a story we first covered Jan. 9, 2014 regarding a dispute over the rewarding of a debris removal contract in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, a subsidiary of Santee Modular Homes in South Carolina is suing the county for failing to comply with federal guidelines and county guidelines …
Argentinian studio 4L arq has designed an affordable modular home for a vulnerable group of single mothers in the Argentina city of Cutral Co, Neuquen, Argentina. Made of concrete panels, the design process involved the future inhabitants of the homes each step of the way, MHProNews.com has learned from designboom.com. …
The marsfieldnewsherald.com reports that manufactured and modular home builder Liberty Homes, Inc. of Dorchester, Wisconsin was chosen to receive a visit from the current Alice in Dairyland, Kristin Olson. Olson is the ambassador of the WI Department of Agriculture, promoting agricultural products to the state, country and world, logging 40,000 …
In light of enrollment at Central High School in Tioga, North Dakota increasing 150 percent in the last six years, a $9.9 million bond issue before voters January 16 will alleviate overcrowding in school districts responding to the influx of workers drawn by the Bakken oil field. In October the …
A Cody, Wyoming couple was denied a variance to site a modular home on their land by the Park County Commissioners. The current ordinance prohibits mobile homes in the North Fork Planning Area where their land sits. MHProNews has learned “mobile home” includes manufactured and modular homes in their definition. …
The owners of Santee Modular Homes, Inc. in Orange County, South Carolina protested the county council’s decision to award a contract for debris removal to an out-of-state company instead of their firm, Santee Debris Removal. As part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) guidelines for disaster preparation, local jurisdictions …
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A modular house for sale in Townsville, Queensland, Australia offers spectacular views of Cleveland Bay from every room as it rests on 18 large steel pins drilled 20 feet into the rock foundation below. “It’s a very strong design because all of the columns work in unison, like spokes on …
